Will PE be lured back to clean energy?

December 22, 2015

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It’s no surprise that financing was a crucial component of the recently signed Paris Agreement, a unified pact among nations the world over to address the threat of climate change. The agreement states that the global response to warming temperatures includes steering finance flows toward climate-resilient development and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Maybe this worldwide call-to-action will lure private equity back into clean energy, a space that has seen decreased PE activity so far this year. PE firms have completed 83 deals in global clean energy companies thus far in 2015, according to the PitchBook Platform, a 27% drop from the decade high of 113 deals completed last year.

Click here for more, including a list of the most active PE investors in clean energy since 2005.